The suggestion is still on the WG agenda - no decision has been made.
When we last discussed it, I think there were two unsolved problems: (a)
how to handle backwards compatibility, and (b) whether the curly braces
in text nodes should mean "value-of" or "copy-of" -- where I think most
people would tend to prefer value-of if it weren't for the argument
based on consistency with XQuery.
The backwards compatibility issue overlaps with a usability issue of how
to handle content that is already rich in curly braces, like CSS or
Javascript.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
On 03/11/2012 12:18, Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex wrote:
Hi Florent,
Thomas Meinike has pointed [1] me to your XMLSS presentation on the
XPath/XSLT/XQuery 3.0 novelties. Among other things, you presented
XSLT text value templates [2], a feature that we didn’t see in the
current draft spec [3].
Can you elaborate a bit on the status of this feature?
I think that it’s misleading because syntactically it looks like
XQuery where an arbitrary sequence may be created by the expression
inside the curly braces, while in XSLT the expression should evaluate
to a mere text node. Does this small gain in syntactic sweetness
really outweigh the inconsistency with a sister spec?
Gerrit
[1] https://twitter.com/XMLArbyter/status/263220416817025024
[2] http://fgeorges.org/papers/fgeorges-xmlss-xslt-trends.pdf#page=40
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/
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